Elise's First Basketball Season Comes to an End

Elise and Anja played basketball for the first time this winter, and it was a ton of fun.  Anja was in the youngest group and they did skills building, with some scrimmages but no games.  Elise's age group practiced for a few weeks, then had games twice a week against other girls' teams in her age group.  They did very well, especially considering about half the girls on her team had never played before.  During the regular season they lost only two games, which meant they made it into championship play.  In the semi-final round they played a team they had previously lost to, and won by one point!

After the semi-final game, they were pretty excited!

In the final championship game they played the other team they had lost to in regular play, and hung in pretty close until the end, but could not pull ahead.  Elise was pretty sad they lost, but she did make a basket in the game and felt good about that.  We all think coming in second of all the teams in her age bracket is pretty good!

You can a short video of Elise making her basket here.